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North Queenslanders pride themselves on resilience against natural disasters such as cyclones. Cyclone Debbie took many by surprise. Tens of thousands of people in the Whitsunday region are still without power. Katherine Gregory has spoken to those deeply affected by the category four storm ...

In north Queensland the recovery efforts from Cyclone Debbie are going to take some time. The towns of Airlie Beach and Proserpine are still without water and power and fuel is at a premium. Despite the destruction, affected residents are resiliently surviving, with help from the Defence Force ...

Heavy rain and power outages are hampering the clean-up effort after Cyclone Debbie, with severe thunderstorms sweeping through Queensland's central coast. Emergency services have rescued dozens from flood waters, while thousands remain stranded on the Whitsundays with dwindling food and ...

The clean-up from the wild weather in Queensland has begun as emergency crews work to remove fallen trees, clear roads and restore power. Up to 18,000 residents in Mackay are waiting for electricity to be restored while canegrowers say the weather has potentially impacted around nine million ...

In Queensland, tropical cyclone Trevor has been downgraded after crossing the Cape York Peninsula coast late yesterday just south of Lockhart River.
It crossed as a category three, pummelling communities with wind gusts of 133 kilometres per hour....

Investigators in France are beginning to analyse the black boxes from the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed last weekend, seeking clues to a disaster that has angered mourning families and grounded much of Boeing's 737 MAX 8 fleet. Possible links between the tragedy and another fatal crash in ...

US President Donald Trump has announced all Boeing 737 Max-8s will be grounded in the United States, until further notice. Almost every major destination in the world has now banned the aircraft from their airspace, following the deadly crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jet just after take off in ...